{"606385":{"#nid":"606385","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Shafiq Chosen for CSIP Outstanding Research Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMuhammad Amir Shafiq, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), was chosen for the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) Outstanding Research Award for spring semester 2018. All CSIP students are eligible for this award, and after all nominations are considered, the recipient is determined by a vote of the CSIP faculty.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA Fulbright Ph.D. scholar from Pakistan, Shafiq was a member of the\u0026nbsp;Omni Lab for Intelligent Visual Engineering and Science and theGeorgia Tech Center for Energy and Geo Processing (CeGP), a research center at Georgia Tech and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). Both the lab and the center are led by ECE Professor Ghassan AlRegib.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShafiq\u0026#39;s Ph.D. dissertation, \u0026ldquo;Computational Seismic Interpretation using Attention Models, Texture Dissimilarity, and Machine Learning,\u0026rdquo; introduced novel seismic attributes and automated, interactive, and interpreter-assisted workflows, which not only reduced the time for seismic interpretation, but also outperformed state-of-the-arts methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his stay at Georgia Tech, Shafiq filed two invention disclosures, authored\/co-authored more than 30 articles in international journals and conference proceedings, and developed three tools for computational seismic interpretation. He also received the Best Poster Award at KFUPM in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in March 2016.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParts of Shafiq\u0026rsquo;s research have been published in journals and conferences, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Signal Processing Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Applied Geophysics\u003C\/em\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EInterpretation\u003C\/em\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGeophysical Prospecting;\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGeophysics\u003C\/em\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Leading Edge\u003C\/em\u003E(TLE);\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGeophysical Journal International\u003C\/em\u003E;\u0026nbsp;SIAM Conference on Imaging Science; SBGf\/SEG Workshop on Machine Learning;\u0026nbsp;Society of Exploration Geophysicists;\u0026nbsp;European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers;\u0026nbsp;American Association of Petroleum Geologists;\u0026nbsp;International Conference on Image Processing;\u0026nbsp;International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing; and\u0026nbsp;Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent ECE Ph.D. graduate\u0026nbsp;Muhammad Amir Shafiq was chosen for the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) Outstanding Research Award for spring semester 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate\u00a0Muhammad Amir Shafiq was chosen for the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) Outstanding Research Award for spring semester 2018. 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